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Clinical Podcasts

UpToDate faculty discuss important “What’s New” and “Practice Changing UpDates”, based on recent medical journal articles, in our clinical podcasts. Our contributors are recognized physician leaders in their fields and offer their expertise regarding each update and its impact on clinical practice. Each clinical podcast includes the most current clinical information available as of the release date listed.

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Dr. Jerry Swanson is Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, where he's a consultant neurologist with a special interest in patients with headaches, including migraine. He is an UpToDate section editor in the neurology specialty.

Dr. Ciarán Kelly is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Gastroenterology Fellowship Training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. His clinical and research interests are in intestinal infection and inflammation. He is an UpToDate author of several topics covering C. difficile infection and celiac disease.

Today’s UpToDate Talk episode features discussions related to three papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Jess Mandel discusses anticoagulation options for cancer-associated venous thromboembolism, and Dr. George Mallory discusses two studies of tezacaftor-ivacaftor in patients with cystic fibrosis. Segment two begins at 11:32. Dr. Helen Hollingsworth hosts.

Dr. Jess Mandel is Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of California San Diego. He is Section Editor for UpToDate topics on pulmonary vascular disease.

Dr. George Mallory is Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, and Section Editor for UpToDate topics on pediatric pulmonology.

Management of suicide risk in children and adolescents; Increasing prevalence of syphilis in the US

Date Released: Feb 7 2018

Today’s episode of UpToDate Talk features Dr. Gregory Simon discussing the management of suicide risk in children and adolescents, and Dr. Khalil Ghanem discussing the increasing prevalence of syphilis in the United States. The second segment begins at 18:10. Dr. Nancy Sokol hosts.

Dr. Gregory Simon is a psychiatrist and senior investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. He leads the Mental Health Research Network in the US and is an UpToDate author for topics on suicide.

Dr. Khalil Ghanem is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a specialist in infectious diseases. Dr. Ghanem is an UpToDate author on a number of topics on sexually transmitted infections.

Frequency for dosing of oral iron; Risk of late recurrence after adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer

Date Released: Jan 24 2018

In this episode of UpToDate Talk, Dr. Stanley Schrier joins us to discuss an article from Lancet Haematology on a new paradigm for the dosing of oral iron, and Dr. Dan Hayes discusses his meta-analysis from the New England Journal of Medicine on the risk of late recurrence after adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer. Dr. Jennifer Tirnauer hosts.